[filk] Re: Hello and some comments

From: Juliana Lane <the_pondside at yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:54:11 -0800 (PST)

Oooh goodie
I love Puzzlebox :)

Looking forward to receiving a gig list. Welcome to the Pacific Northwest, from someone who is slightly more North and West...

Juliana

• "Dixon, Steven E" <steven.e.dixon at boeing.com> wrote:
  >
  > Glad to have you join us! I just checked out the
  > Puzzlebox web site and I am
  > really excited to have you in the area and eagerly
  > waiting for a chance to
  > hear you.
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Alisa Garcia [mailto:trystel at starband.net]
  > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:00 PM
  > To: filk at dragoncat.net
  > Subject: [filk] Hello and some comments
  >
  >
  >
  > Well! I just joined this list yesterday, and was
  > told by Jeff Hitchin that
  > it averaged 10 to 20 posts a month. <grin> I just
  > checked the count on my
  > filter for this folder and it's at 45 in less than a
  > day and still going
  > strong. Glad to see we have opinionated filkers in
  > the area!
  >
  > First off, just wanted to say hi and introduce
  > myself to those who don't
  > know me, or barely remember me. Alisa Garcia from
  > Puzzlebox here. My
  > husband, Luis (of OoklaTheMok in Buffalo), and I
  > relocated to the Seattle
  > area last April. Luis left Ookla and joined
  > Puzzlebox as our drummer awhile
  > back. We're up in the Snohomish area. Had a baby
  > daughter on April 17th,
  > and have been in remodeling craziness on the new
  > house and baby-raising mode
  > since then, so filk sort of fell off our agenda for
  > awhile. But, we're
  > looking forward to being on this list now to learn
  > about upcoming house
  > filks in the area and other filk activities going
  > on.
  >
  > Am not familiar with Orycon. Where's it held/when's
  > it held? I take it
  > recently. :-) I know about Norwescon (we've had
  > concerts there the last two
  > years, not counting this year).
  >
  > So, some comments to add to the debate:
  >
  > * I agree with the overall vibe that late concerts
  > suck.
  > * I think half hour concerts are fine, with only the
  > GOH and the IF guests
  > going longer.
  > * I don't agree with idea of shuffling the entire
  > schedule forward for
  > no-shows (whether they gave notice or not). Callie
  > highlighted most of the
  > reasons I would argue on this point, so I won't
  > bother duplicating her
  > response.
  > * And my own personal preference: it would really
  > help if the filk
  > programming gods would allow bands (or individuals
  > with a lot of
  > instruments) to set up early in the afternoon and
  > leave the equipment on or
  > near the stage. As a keyboard player (me) and a
  > drummer (Luis), we have
  > first-hand experience on the setup and soundcheck
  > delay that ensues when the
  > act before you runs late and you still have to lug
  > all your equipment on
  > stage, plug it all in/set it up, do a 30 second
  > soundcheck (that basically
  > takes care of shrieking feedback and nothing else)
  > and still start your
  > concert 10 minutes late. When we were GaFilk IF
  > guests last year, they
  > actually had slotted time in the late afternoon for
  > all guests scheduled
  > that night to do setup and soundcheck. That was the
  > best managed concert
  > series I've participated in. We've had concerts at
  > Consonance, FKO, Baycon,
  > ConChord, Norwescon, OVFF, GaFilk and
  > FilkContinental (I had to miss that
  > one, so can't comment how it went), and our concerts
  > never start on time,
  > both because of previous acts running late and our
  > setup time. GaFilk is
  > the only one that we didn't feel rushed and
  > pressured to basically throw our
  > equipment on the stage and hope that it landed in
  > working order.
  >
  > See you all around, hopefully. :-)
  >
  > Alisa
  > www.puzzlebox.net
  >
  >
  >
  

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Eliza Juliana Lane

"The only thing more irritating than someone who never does what they say is someone who always does...." http://www.pondsidemusic.com

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